There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner the sweets come last.

But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school and four years of internship and residency and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts and potatoes and bread and sweets.

I've never been a huge sweets eater and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

I'm lucky I don't like sweets not even chocolate.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.